On 01/14 12:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:36:23 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > With each job taking up to 1.2G of RAM you can quickly exhaust > > available memory on older PCs and swapping can start grinding the box > > to a halt. Since the move to profile 17.0 I found my old laptop comes > > to its knees on compiling larger packages like Chromium. If you also > > find swapping starts thrashing your drive and emerge moves nowhere fast > > as it becomes I/O bound, you should consider reducing the number of > > jobs with MAKEOPTS="-jX" where X is a lesser number than previously > > used and also reducing the --load-average to a low(er) number. > > I have 8GB in this laptop (not expandable) and Chromium is currently > swapping away with -j4. With -j2 it didn't so I'll try -j3 next time. > > You can set it on a per package basis: > > % cat /etc/portage/package.env/chromium > www-client/chromium disk-tmpdir.conf j3.conf > > % cat /etc/portage/env/j3.conf > MAKEOPTS="-j3" > > % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" > > The last one is needed because TMPDIR is on a tmpfs normally. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > If at first you don't suceed, try the switch marked "Power"
Hi, thanks a lot for all the input. I disabled pulseaudio via USE flag and recompiled the whole stuff. And VOILA! : Sound without apulse and pulseaudio! NICE! Cheers! Meino
